Closed Mondays. I thought it was open seven days a week.
By Patrick Hoge | Examiner staff writer
1 hr ago
San Francisco Cable Car Museum board members Don Holmgren, left, and Mike Phipps are seen inside the Cable Car Museum at 1201 Mason St., in front of the live machinery that pulls The City’s historic public-transit icons up and down hills.
Don Holmgren said that one of his favorite aspects of the venerable Cable Car Museum — where people can see the live machinery that pulls The City’s historic public-transit icons up and down hills — is that there is still no charge for admission.
“That’s a big thing,” said Holmgren, a museum volunteer for nearly 30 years who serves as a tour guide and a director of the nonprofit Friends of the Cable Car Museum that oversees the operation. “In the Bay Area, it’s free! And there are tours available.”
Established in 1974, the Cable Car Museum occupies part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s historic red brick cable-car barn and powerhouse on Nob Hill. The museum estimates on its IRS nonprofit forms that the facility at Mason and Washington streets — the listed address for the cable-car system’s entry in the National Register of Historic Landmarks — sees “in excess of 200,000 visitors annually.”
It’s also where The City’s cable cars spend the night, and where noisy engines pull the cables that power San Francisco’s Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason and California Street lines.
The museum is open every day but Mondays, New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Visitors are welcome from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday.
Venerable SF Cable Car Museum is still rolling, still free
Greg